Committees

Youth Committee

The Youth Committee provides information and assists with planning, operational, and other issues relating to serving youth. The committee includes community-based organizations with a demonstrated record of success in service-eligible youth.

Staff
Vocational Rehabilitation: Aimee Langone
Adult Education: Alexandra Ellerman
Workforce Development Division: Lindsay Cropper

Services to Individuals with Disabilities Committee

The Services to Individuals with Disabilities Committee provides information and assists with operational and other issues relating to serving individuals with disabilities. This includes providing programmatic and physical access to the services, programs and activities of the one-stop delivery system, and appropriate staff training to provide support, accommodations, and help finding employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

Staff
Vocational Rehabilitation: Leah Lobato
Workforce Development Division: Stacie Smith

Career Pathways Committee

The Career Pathways Committee is comprised of education, community organizations, employers and workforce organizations. This committee meets with partners from around the state and gathers information and ideas on how these groups can align, share resources and collaborate. The committee makes recommendations that include the Six Key Elements of the Career Pathways Toolkit (published by the Department of Labor) and support Utah’s sector strategies that are aligned with Governor's Office of Economic Opportunityindustry clusters.

Staff
Vocational Rehabilitation: Marion Davis
Adult Education: Danielle Pedersen
Workforce Development Division: Amira Mijic

Apprenticeships Committee

The Apprenticeships Committee develops a plan to partner with education through the creation and expansion of pre-apprenticeship opportunities and to enhance awareness. It will also work to encourage and recruit employers to become a certified apprenticeship sponsors while coordinating and aligning existing career and technical education efforts within the state.

Staff
Vocational Rehabilitation: Joshua Rodeback
Workforce Development Division: Alexia Murphy 
Adult Education: Breckon Haywood

Operations Committee

The Operations Committee supports the Unified Plan’s goal of utilizing a variety of strategies to align the core programs, one-stop partners and other resources to achieve fully integrated customer services. This includes creating workforce development activities in regard to gaps identified in the state’s workforce analysis; setting collaborative performance goals, certifying one-stop centers, sharing information/data and working together to resolve problems and addressing gaps; and collaborating and coordinating on training, marketing and feedback by utilizing existing committees, workgroups and programs while aligning and sharing resources when appropriate.

Staff
Vocational Rehabilitation: Aaron Thompson
Adult Education: Stephanie Patton
Workforce Development Division: Heather Mousley